Miss an important Computing Blog? No fear, its all here in this review!
Normally when we do our blog reviews here at Families.com, we highlight the past week. Well, I confess that I am a little late, so this review will actually cover almost two weeks! The time has been flying by fast since I have been blogging here in the Computing Blog. It has ben a fun adventure, and I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions!
Monday, April 23rd
“At this historic milestone, we want to thank music lovers everywhere for making iPod such an incredible success,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO in an announcement earlier this month. Jobs was referring to the fact that 100 million iPods have been sold.
Tuesday, April 24th
Wallpaper Originals: Free for Mac & PC
Wallpaper originals is one of those web sites that I find myself going to frequently. The site offers thousands of free original desktops for your screen, and they are all compatible with either Mac or PC.
Wednesday, April 25th
A wireless mouse scores big on the coolness factor, but do you really need one? Well, let’s take at the pros, cons and uses of a wireless mouse.
Thursday, April 26th
Are laptops absolutely necessary? Probably not, unless you are me.
When I received a laptop a couple of years ago, my whole world changed. I became less stressed, grew three inches taller, lost 20 pounds and developed sparkling white teeth. Well, maybe not, but I did grow less stressed.
Friday, April 27th
Inserting Attachments: Outlook Express
Want to insert attachments in Outlook Express? Whether it is a document or an image, there are three easy ways to insert an attachment into your e-mail message.
For this tip, we are working with Outlook Express 6 e-mail messages, but these tips may still apply to older versions of the software.
Sunday, April 29th
Ipod: The Cheater’s Best Friend?
Among it’s many functions, it seems that the iPod had recently added one more, as a portable cheating device.
Monday, April 30th
Internet Sex Crimes: Florida Gets Tough
If you have children, this is one of those stories that just makes you applaud.
Tuesday, May 1st
Search Your Bookmarks (Safari)
If you want to search among your sea of bookmarks, you’ll love this tip!
Wednesday, May 2nd
Proximity Computing Coming Soon?
Have your heard of proximity computing? It promises to dramatically increase data transaction speeds between computer chips while greatly reducing power consumption. What is more, is that the technology seems to be able to work like magic, allowing computer chips to communicate with each other without actually making physical contact. So instead of being connected to each other, the chips interconnect, communicate and function by just being in close proximity, hence the new technology name.
Oh those wonderful widgets! One of the first things that people tend to do when they get a new Mac is to go crazy downloading widgets, those cute and useful little programs that are so much fun to use.
Thursday, May 3rd
National Sex Offender Registry Online
Do you know who lives in your neighborhood? The Family Watchdog web site will help you find out.
Chances are there are several sex offenders living in your neighborhood. You just don’t know it. According to the Family Watchdog group, awareness is your best defense.
Friday, May 4th
It is a great phenomena that there is at least one song to which everyone knows the wrong lyrics. For me it has always been “Bad Moon on the Rise,” or at least to the delight of my kids, “There’s a Bathroom on The Right.” For the longest time, I really did think those were the lyrics. Now I just sing the song that way whenever I want some giggles.
Spider-Man 3 Video Game is Promising
If you have boys in your house then chances are pretty good that you know all about Spiderman 3. I can’t tell you the number of times I catch little bits of the Spider-man theme floating through our house uttered by my eldest son. Spider-man is everywhere including in the third video game in a very successful Spider-man series.